Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which resolves, in any sense of that word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That which decomposes, or dissolves.
  • noun That which clears up and removes difficulties, and makes the mind certain or determined.
  • noun One who resolves, or formal a firm purpose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Agent noun of resolve; one who resolves.
  • noun A device whose electrical output is proportional to the angular position of an object such as a rotor.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to resolve + -er.

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Examples

  • Google has stated thatits newDNS resolver is designed tohelpspeed up the Internet.

    Why Google's fiber network experiment could be disruptive 2010

  • Ex Libris (UK) has announced that the SFX link resolver is now operational at the Oxford University Library Services.

    October 2007 2007

  • Gashinsky presented Yahoo's DNS recursive name resolver proposal to the IETF's DNS Operations Working group.

    ARN News 2010

  • Gashinsky presented Yahoo's DNS recursive name resolver proposal to the IETF's DNS Operations Working group.

    ARN News 2010

  • Gashinsky presented Yahoo's DNS recursive name resolver proposal to the IETF's DNS Operations Working group.

    ARN News 2010

  • Gashinsky presented Yahoo's DNS recursive name resolver proposal to the IETF's DNS Operations Working group.

    ARN News 2010

  • Gashinsky presented Yahoo's DNS recursive name resolver proposal to the IETF's DNS Operations Working group.

    ARN News 2010

  • Gashinsky presented Yahoo's DNS recursive name resolver proposal to the IETF's DNS Operations Working group.

    ARN News 2010

  • Gashinsky presented Yahoo's DNS recursive name resolver proposal to the IETF's DNS Operations Working group.

    ARN News 2010

  • Gashinsky presented Yahoo's DNS recursive name resolver proposal to the IETF's DNS Operations Working group.

    ARN News 2010

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